Research & Publications
Book
Manchester University Press, 2022.
The Pastor in Print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors established authorial identities, targeted different sorts of audiences and strategically selected genre and content as intentional parts of their clerical vocation.
The first study to provide a book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, it uses a case study of prolific pastor-author Richard Bernard to offer a new lens through which to view religious change in this pivotal period. By bringing together questions of print, genre, religio-politics and theology, the book will interest scholars and postgraduate students in history, literature and theological studies, and its readability will appeal to undergraduates and non-specialists.
Chapters and Journal Articles
Political and religious practice in the early modern British world, Edited by William J. Bulman and Freddy Domínguez (Manchester University Press, 2022)
The Seventeenth Century 34:5 (2019): 583-599.
Reformation and Renaissance Review 19:2 (2017): 135-153.
Book reviews have appeared in The Sixteenth Century Journal and Reformation.
Current Research
I am at work on two article-length projects: one addressing printed puritan objections to the practice of "churching" women after childbirth, and another examining a little-known 1637 manuscript critique of New England church covenanting practices.
Contributions to digital and public humanities projects
- 'Who Speaks for the Negro?' archive and research site with material from the 1960 civil rights movement (Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the Vanderbilt University Libraries). I performed archival research in view of publishing materials on this site; transcribed, tagged, and uploaded the new content; and completed several design and usability enhancements for this online archive.
- Digital History Project (Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln). I was the primary designer for the first version of the Digital History Project including HTML/CSS, site design, and written and video content. I collaborated with University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of History faculty, New Media Center staff, and an undergraduate student artist on the site design.
- Railroads and the Making of Modern America (Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln). I assisted with the development of navigational and aesthetic components, storyboarding of interpretive “view” elements, quality control, and transcription.
- “Beating a Path to Heaven”: English Puritan Meditation in the Seventeenth Century (Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; NOTE: link is to archived version of site). I was the researcher, creator, site designer, and primary content contributor for this site developed as part of my M.A. studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I organized and assisted volunteer transcribers to increase the number of texts available on the site.